Advanced search
Publication Cover
Communicative & Integrative Biology Volume 2, 2009 - Issue 6
Submit an article Journal homepage
753
Views
16
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article Addendum

Fecundity increase supports adaptive radiation hypothesis in spider web evolution

Todd A. Blackledge Department of Biology and Integrated Bioscience Program, University of Akron, Akron, OH, USACorrespondence[email protected]
,
Jonathan A. Coddington Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
&
Ingi Agnarsson Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan PR, USA
Pages 459-463 | Received 27 Apr 2009, Accepted 28 Apr 2009, Published online: 01 Nov 2009

References

  • Wagner WL, Funk VA. Hawaiian biogeography: Evolution on a hot spot archipelago 1995; Washington, DC Smithsonian Institution Press
  • Orr MR, Smith TB. Ecology and speciation. Trends Ecol Evol 1998; 13:502 - 506
  • Coddington JA. Cladistic tests of adaptational hypotheses. Cladistics-Int J Willi Hennig Soc 1988; 4:3 - 22
  • Schluter D. The ecology of adaptive radiation 2000; New York Oxford University Press
  • Losos JB, Jackman TR, Larson A, de Queiroz K, Rodriguez-Schettino L. Contingency and determinism in replicated adaptive radiations of island lizards. Science 1998; 279:2115 - 2118
  • Denny M. Physical properties of spider’s silks and their role in design of orb-webs. J Exp Biol 1976; 65:483 - 506
  • Vollrath F. Spider Webs and Silks. SciAm 1992; 266:70 - 76
  • Bond JE, Opell BD. Testing adaptive radiation and key innovation hypotheses in spiders. Evolution 1998; 52:403 - 414
  • Blackledge TA, Coddington JA, Gillespie RG. Are three-dimensional spider webs defensive adaptations?. Ecol Lett 2003; 6:13 - 18
  • Craig CL. The significance of spider size to the diversification of spider-web architectures and spider reproductive modes. Am Nat 1987; 129:47 - 68
  • Coddington J. Shear WA. The monophyletic origin of the orb web. Spiders: webs, behavior and evolution 1986; Stanford Stanford University Press 319 - 363
  • Blackledge TA, Scharff N, Coddington JA, Szüts T, Wenzel JW, Hayashi CY, et al. Reconstructing web evolution and spider diversification in the molecular era. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2009; 106:5229 - 5234
  • Blackledge TA. Stabilimentum variation and foraging success in Argiope aurantia and Argiope trifasciata (Araneae: Araneidae). J Zool 1998; 246:21 - 27
  • Hawthorn AC, Opell BD. van der Waals and hygroscopic forces of adhesion generated by spider capture threads. J Exp Biol 2003; 206:3905 - 3911
  • Opell BD. The ability of spider cribellar prey capture thread to hold insects with different surface features. Funct Ecol 1994; 8:145 - 150
  • Vollrath F, Tillinghast EK. Glycoprotein glue beneath a spider web’s aqueous coat. Naturwissenschaften 1991; 78:557 - 559
  • Townley MA, Tillinghast EK. Orb web recycling in Araneus cavaticus (Araneae, Araneidae) with an emphasis on the adhesive spiral component, gabamide. J Arachnol 1988; 16:303 - 319
  • Opell BD. Economics of spider orb-webs: the benefits of producing adhesive capture thread and of recycling silk. Funct Ecol 1998; 12:613 - 624
  • Marshall SD, Gittleman JL. Clutch size in spiders: Is more better?. Funct Ecol 1994; 8:118 - 124
  • Simpson MR. Covariation of spider egg and clutch size: the influence of foraging and parental care. Ecology 1995; 76:795 - 800
  • Enders F. Clutch size related to hunting manner of spider species. Ann Entomol Soc Am 1976; 69:991 - 998
  • Harvey PH, Pagel MD. The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology 1991; New York Oxford University Press
  • Anderson JF. Energy Content of Spider Eggs. Oecologia 1978; 37:41 - 57
  • Coddington JA, Hormiga G, Scharff N. Giant female or dwarf male spiders?. Nature 1997; 385:687 - 688
  • Higgins L. Female gigantism in a New Guinea population of the spider Nephila maculata. Oikos 2002; 99:377 - 385
  • Eberhard WG. Rates of egg-production by tropical spiders in the field. Biotropica 1979; 11:292 - 300
  • Wise DH. Food limitation of the spider Linyphia marginata: experimental food studies. Ecology 1975; 56:637 - 646
  • Anderson JF. Metabolic Rates of Spiders. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 1970; 33:51
  • Anderson JF, Prestwich KN. Respiratory gas exchange in spiders. Physiol Zool 1982; 55:72 - 90
  • Anderson JF. Comparative energetics of comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae). Comp Biochem Physiol A-Physiol 1994; 109:181 - 189
  • Greenstone MH, Bennett AF. Foraging strategy and metabolic rate in spiders. Ecology 1980; 61:1255 - 1259
  • Venner S, Casas J. Spider webs designed for rare but life-saving catches. Proc Roy Soc B 2005; 272:1587 - 1592
  • Anderson JF. Responses to starvation in the spiders Lycosa lenta Hentz and Filistata hibernalis (Hentz). Ecology 1974; 55:576 - 585

Appendix—Sources of Fecundity Data

  • Amalin DM, Reiskind J, Pena JE, McSorley R. Predatory behavior of three species of sac spiders attacking citrus leafminer. J Arachnol 2001; 29:72 - 81
  • Aviles L, McCormack J, Cutter A, Bukowski T. Precise, highly female-biased sex ratios in a social spider. Proc R Soc Lond Ser B-Biol Sci 2000; 267:1445 - 1449
  • Bond JE, Opell BD. Systematics of the spider genera Mallos and Mexitlia (Araneae: Dictynidae). Zool J Linn Soc 1997; 119:389 - 445
  • Bukowski TC, Christenson TE. Natural history and copulatory behavior of the spiny orbweaving spider Micrathena gracilis (Araneae, Araneidae). J Arachnol 1997; 25:307 - 320
  • Coddington JA. The genera of the spider family Theridiosomatidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 1986; 1 - 96
  • Coyle FA, Icenogle WR. Natural-History of the Californian Trapdoor Spider Genus Aliatypus (Araneae, Antrodiaetidae). J Arachnol 1994; 22:225 - 255
  • Bosselaers J, Jocque R. Studies in Corinnidae: transfer of four genera and description of the female of Lessertina mutica Lawrence 1942. Trop Zool 2000; 13:305 - 325
  • Boulton AM, Polis GA. Phenology and life history of the desert spider, Diguetia mojavea (Araneae, Diguetidae). J Arachnol 1999; 27:513 - 521
  • Brescovit AD, Raizer J, Amaral MEC. Descriptions and notes on the genus Paradossenus in the neotropical region (Araneae, Trechaleidae). J Arachnol 2000; 28:7 - 15
  • Costa FG, Perez-Miles F. Behavior, life cycle and webs of Mecicobothrium thorelli (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Mecicobothriidae). J Arachnol 1998; 26:317 - 329
  • Costa FG, Perez-Miles F. Reproductive biology of Uruguayan theraphosids (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). J Arachnol 2002; 30:571 - 587
  • Coyle FA. A revison of the American funnel-web mygalomorph spider genus Euagrus (Araneae, Dipluridae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1988; 187:203 - 292
  • Coyle FA, Oshields TC, Perlmutter DG. Observations on the behavior of the kleptoparasitic spider, Mysmenopsis furtiva (Araneae, Mysmenidae). J Arachnol 1991; 19:62 - 66
  • Eberhard WG. Rates of egg-production by tropical spiders in the field. Biotropica 1979; 11:292 - 300
  • Danielson-Francois AM. Natural history of Glenognatha emertoni (Araneae, Tetragnathidae): Mating behavior and sperm release in a haplogyne. J Arachnol 2006; 34:387 - 398
  • Deng LL, Dai JY, Cao H, Xu MQ. Effects of an organophosphorous insecticide on survival, fecundity and development of Hylyphantes graminicola (Sundevall) (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Environ Toxicol Chem 2006; 25:3073 - 3077
  • Doran NE, Richardson AMM, Swain R. The reproductive behaviour of the Tasmanian cave spider Hickmania troglodytes (Araneae: Austrochilidae). J Zool 2001; 253:405 - 418
  • Downes MF. The life-hisotry of Badumna candida (Araneae, Amaurobioidea). Aust J Zool 1993; 41:441 - 466
  • Edwards RL, Edwards EH, Edwards AD. Observations of Theotima minutissimus (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae), a parthenogenetic spider. J Arachnol 2003; 31:274 - 277
  • Forster RR, Platnick NI. A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1984; 178:1 - 106
  • Griswold CE, Meikle-Griswold T. Archaeodictyna ulova, new species (Araneae: Dictynidae), a remarkable kleptoparasite of group-living eresid spiders (Stegodyphus spp., Araneae: Eresidae). Am Mus Novit 1987; 2897:1 - 11
  • Gundermann JL, Horel A, Roland C. Costs and benefits of maternal care in a subsocial spider, Coelotes terrestris. Ethology 1997; 103:915 - 925
  • Hormiga G. A revision and cladistic analysis of the spider family Pimoidae (Araneoidea: Araneae). Smithson Contrib Zool 1994; 549:1 - 104
  • Kaston BJ. Spiders of Connecticut. State Geological and Natural History Survey of Connecticut 1981;
  • Kim KW, Roland C, Horel A. Functional value of matriphagy in the spider Amaurobius ferox. Ethology 2000; 106:729 - 742
  • Fischer ML, Vasconcellos-Neto J. Parameters affecting fecundity of Loxosceles intermedia Mello-Leitao 1934 (Araneae, Sicariidae). J Arachnol 2005; 33:670 - 680
  • Grismado CJ. A taxonomic revision of the spider genus Ariadna audouin, 1826 in Argentina and Chile, with the description of five new species (Arachnida, Araneae, Segestriidae). Zoosystema 2008; 30:333 - 360
  • Griswold CE. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider subfamily Phyxelidinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1990; 3 - 206
  • Guarisco H. Description of the egg sac of Mimetus notius (Araneae, Mimetidae) and a case of egg predation by Phalacrotophora epeirae (Diptera, Phoridae). J Arachnol 2001; 29:267 - 269
  • Huber BA. Notes on the neotropical spider genus Modisimus (Pholcidae, Araneae), with descriptions of thirteen new species from Costa Rica and neighboring countries. J Arachnol 1998; 26:19 - 60
  • Jocque R. A generic revision of the spider family Zodariidae (Araneae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1991; 1 - 160
  • Cazier MA, Mortenson MA. Analysis of the habitat, web design, cocoon and egg sacs of the tube weaving spider Diguetia canities (McCook), (Araneae, Diguetidae). Bull South Calif Acad Sci 1962; 61:65 - 88
  • Coyle FA, Meigs TE. Two new species of kleptoparasitic Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) from Jamaica. J Arachnol 1989; 17:59 - 70
  • Calderón R, Garrido M, Pinto C. Etapas del crecimiento de Acanthogonatus franckii Karsch, 1880 (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Rev Chil Entomol 1990; 18:19 - 24
  • Bennett RG. Systematics and natural history of Wadotes (Araneae, Agelenidae). J Arachnol 1987; 15:91 - 128
  • Baerg WJ. Tarantula studies. J NY Entomol Soc 1938; 46:31 - 43
  • Bentzien MM. Biology of the spider Diguetia imperiosa. The Pan-Pac Entomol 1973; 49:110 - 123
  • Bristowe WS. The comity of spiders 1939; London The Ray Society
  • Forster RR, Forster LM. Spiders of New Zealand 1999; Dunedin University of Otago Press
  • Ihara Y. Cybaeus jinsekiensis n. sp., a spider species wtih protogynous maturation and mating plugs (Araneae: Cybaeidae). Acta Arachnologica 2006; 55:5 - 13
  • Huff RP, Coyle FA. Systematics of Hypochilus sheari and Hypochilus coylei, two Southern Appalachian lampshade spiders (Araneae, Hypochilidae). J Arachnol 1992; 20:40 - 46
  • Girault AA. Standards of the number of eggs laid by spiders—I (Arach.). Entomol News 1911; 22:461 - 462
  • Girault AA. Standards of the number of eggs laid by spiders (Aran.)—III. Entomol News 1914; 25:66 - 67
  • Gertsch WJ, Platnick NI. A revision of the spider family Mecicobothriidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Am Mus Novit 1979; 2687:1 - 32
  • Paz N. Aspectos de la biología reproductiva de Linothele megatheloides (Araneae: Dipluridae). J Arachnol 1993; 21:40 - 49
  • de Andrade RMG, Lourenço WR, Tambourgi DV. Comparison of the fertility between Loxosceles intermedia and Loxosceles laeta spiders (Araneae, Sicariidae). J Arachnol 2 2000; 28:245 - 247
  • Fergusson IC. Natural history of the spider Hypochilus thorelli Marx (Hypochilidae). Psyche 1972; 79:179 - 199
  • Levi HW. Orb-weaving spiders Actinosoma, Spilasma, Micrepeira, Pronous and four new genera (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1995; 154:153 - 211
  • Labarque FM, Ramírez MJ. Description of the female of Drymusa serrana Goloboff & Ramírez, 1991 (Araneae: Drymusidae) with notes on its biology. Zootaxa 2007; 1580:27 - 33
  • Levi HW. The neotropical orb-weaving spiders of the genera Wixia, Pozonia and Ocrepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1993; 153:47 - 141
  • Levi HW. The Neotropical and Mexican species of the orb-weaver genera Araneus, Dubiepeira new genus, and Aculepeira (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1991; 152:167 - 315
  • Levi HW. The bolas spiders of the genus Mastophora (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 2003; 157:309 - 382
  • Levi HW. The American orb-weaver genera Larinia, Cercidia and Mangora north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1975; 147:101 - 135
  • Levi HW. The orb-weaver genera Araniella and Nuctenea (Araneae: Araneidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1974; 146:291 - 316
  • Marshall SD, Gittleman JL. Clutch size in spiders: Is more better?. Funct Ecol 1994; 8:118 - 124
  • Marshall SD, Uetz GW. The growth and maturation of a giant spider: Theraphosa leblondi (Latreille, 1804) (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Rev Arachnol 1993; 10:93 - 103
  • Lubin YD, Eberhard WG, Montgomery GG. Webs of Miagrammopes (Araneae: Uloboridae) in the neotropics. Psyche 1978; 85:1 - 23
  • Maddison WP. Pelegrina franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1996; 154:215 - 368
  • Main BY. Biology of aganippine trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Aust J Zool 1957; 5:402 - 473
  • McLay CL, Hayward TL. Reproductive biology of the intertidal spider Desis marina (Araneae: Desidae) on a New Zealand rocky shore. J Zool 1987; 211:357 - 372
  • Miyashita T. Growth, egg production and population density of the spider, Nephila clavata in relation to food conditions in the field. Res Popul Ecol 1986; 28:135 - 150
  • Miyashita K. Life cycle of Oecobius annulipes Lucas (Araneae: Oecobiidae) under indoor conditions and the effect of photoperiod on nymphal development. Acta Arachnologica 1992; 41:5 - 10
  • Nielsen E. The Biology of Spiders. Vol. 1 1931; Copenhagen, Denmark Levin & Munksgaard
  • Opell BD, Beatty JA. The nearctic Hahniidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Bull Mus Comp Zool 1976; 147:393 - 433
  • Opell BD, Berger AM, Shaffer RS. The body size of the New Zealand orb-weaving spider Waitkera waitakerensis (Uloboridae) is directly related to temperature and affects fecundity. Invertebr Biol 2007; 126:183 - 190
  • Prenter J, Elwood RW, Montgomery WI. Sexual size dimorphism and reproductive investment by female spiders: A comparative analysis. Evolution 1999; 53:1987 - 1994
  • Salomon M, Lubin Y. Cooperative breeding increases reproductive success in the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae). Behav Ecol Sociobiol 2007; 61:1743 - 1750
  • Edwards RL, Edwards AD. Life history and ecology of the armored spider Monoblemma muchmorei (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae). J Arachnol 2006; 34:599 - 609
  • Reichling SB, West RC. A new genus and species of Theraphosid spider from Belize (Araneae, Theraphosidae). J Arachnol 1996; 24:254 - 261
  • Schick RX. The crab spiders of California (Araneidae, Thomisidae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1965; 129:1 - 180
  • Punzo F, Henderson L. Aspects of the natural history and behavioural ecology of the tarantula spider Aphonopelma hentzi (Girard, 1854) (Orthognatha, Theraphosidae). Bull Br Arachnol Soc 1999; 11:121 - 128
  • Platnick NI, Schwendinger PJ, Steiner H. Three new species of the spider genus Liphistius (Araneae, Mesothele) from Malaysia. Am Mus Novit 1997; 3209:1 - 13
  • Platnick NI. A revision of the spider genus Segestrioides (Araneae, Diguetidae). Am Mus Novit 1989; 2940:1 - 9
  • Platnick NI. A revision of the South American spider genus Trachelpachys (Araneae, Clubionidae). Am Mus Novit 1975; 2589:1 - 25
  • Ono H. Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Vietnam with notes on their natural history. J Arachnol 1999; 27:37 - 43
  • Schneider JM, Salomon M, Lubin Y. Limited adaptive life-history plasticity in a semelparous spider, Stegodyphus lineatus (Eresidae). Evol Ecol Res 2003; 5:731 - 738
  • Suter RB. Determinants of fecundity in Frontinella pyramitela (Araneae, Linyphiidae). J Arachnol 1990; 18:263 - 269
  • Watanabe T. Life history and seasonal change in the frequency of dimorphic stabilimenta of the orbweb spider, Octonoba sybotides (Uloboridae). Acta Arachnologica 2000; 49:1 - 12
  • West HP, Toft S. Last-male sperm priority and the mating system of the haplogyne spider Tetragnatha extensa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). J Insect Behav 1999; 12:433 - 450
  • Locht A, Yanez M, Vazquez I. Distribution and natural history of Mexican species of Brachypelma and Brachypelmides (Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae) with morphological evidence for their synonymy. J Arachnol 1999; 27:196 - 200
  • Schutz D, Taborsky M. Mate choice and sexual conflict in the size dimorphic water spider Argyroneta aquatica (Araneae, Argyronetidae). J Arachnol 2005; 33:767 - 775
  • Schwendinger PJ. Two new species of the arboreal trapdoor spider genus Sason (Araneae: Barychelidae) from Southeast Asia. Raffles Bull Zool 2003; 51:197 - 207
  • Smith DR. Notes on the reproductive biology and social behavior of two sympatric species of Philoponella (Araneae, Uloboridae). J Arachnol 1997; 25:11 - 19
  • Stiles GJ, Coyle FA. Habitat distribution and life history of species in the spider genera Theridion, Rugathodes and Wamba in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Araneae, Theridiidae). J Arachnol 2001; 29:396 - 412
  • Vetter RS, Cokendolpher JC. Homalonychus theologus (Araneae, Homalonychidae): Description of eggsacs and a possible defensive posture. J Arachnol 2000; 28:361 - 363
  • Vincent LS. The natural history of the California turret spider Atypoides riversi (Aranea, Antrodiaetidae)—demographics, growth-rates, survivorship and longevity. J Arachnol 1993; 21:29 - 39
  • Wang XP. A generic-level revision of the spider subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 2002; 3 - 150
  • Shear WA. The spider family Oecobiidae in North America, Mexico and the West Indies. Bull Mus Comp Zool 1970; 140:129 - 164
  • Coyle FA. The Mygalomorph Spider Genus Microhexura. Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1981; 170:64 - 75
  • Valerio CE. Spitting spiders (Araneae, Scytodidae, Scytodes) from Central America. Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1981; 170:80 - 89
  • Lowrie C, Dondale CD. A Revision of the nigra Group of the Genus Pardosa in North America (Araneae, Lycosidae). Bull Amer Mus Nat Hist 1981; 170:125 - 139

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.